Nashville News: Thursday, 9/3
Final nominees for the 49th Annual CMA Awards will be unveiled on September 9th by Kelsea Ballerini
and Steven Tyler on Good Morning America. They will unveil the nominees in five separate categories.
Following the live announcements on GMA, the two will announce the remaining categories online at
goodmorningamerica.com and on Yahoo.
Carrie Underwood will serve as a guest judge and help pick a winner for the season finale episode of
Project Runway. The finale episode films this month but will air November 5th. Additionally, Carrie is slated
to make her Fashion Week debut with her Calia by Carrie Underwood clothing line at the upcoming New York
Fashion Week to present her Fall Collection.
Nashville News: Wednesday, 9/2
Chris Young has announced the release date for his fifth studio album, I'm Comin' Over -- November 13th.
Chris says, “[The title track] 'I’m Comin’ Over' is honestly such a sonic bridge for me, between what I sounded
like on the last record and what we’ve done on this one. I think that this song is a really good introduction to
what you’ll hear on the rest of this record.”
Kenny Rogers recently announced a new Christmas album, and now he has unveiled dates for his 34th annual Christmas & Hits tour around the U.S. and Canada.
The Once Again It’s Christmas tour runs for 29 dates beginning Nov. 11, and will feature performances of
tracks from the new Christmas album of the same name, holiday classics and some of the artist’s greatest hits,
alongside special guest Linda Davis.
Odd and Ends: Love is in the country air for the The Voice winnerCraig Wayne Boyd- he got engaged to his model
girlfriend Taylor Borland.
The music of Lady Antebellum will be featured in The Sponge Bob Musical. The theatrical production opens in
Chicago in June.
Lauren Alaina wrote and sings a track that will be used for this season's college football coverage on ESPN.
Nashville News: Tuesday, 9/1
The dates have been announced for the CMT on Tour: Brett Eldredge and Thomas Rhett - Suits and Boots.
The guys will get things going in New York City on October 29th and wrap in Chicago on December 12th.
They will make a stop in Youngstown at the Covelli Centre on December 3rd. Danielle Bradberywill join them
for the run.
Don't call Luke Bryan"the father of Bro Country."
He tells the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "It's frustrating because whichever artists may or may not get labeled as that,
they're well beyond that. For people to call me the father of it, well, whatever. It just seems like a term that was
invented to cheapen me as an artist.''
And he says though his fans like his good-time style of music, they're deeper than that. "When people say, 'Luke Bryan fans are nothing but beer drinkers,'
that makes me mad because I know they're more than that. They are the people who make this country go
'round and 'round.''
He brings the Kick the Dust Up tour to First Energy Stadium in Cleveland on Saturday.
Nashville News: Monday, 8/31
The newest member of Lady Antebellum’s band of little ones will be a boy. Charles Kelley and his wife
Cassie are expecting and they announced the news on Good Morning America. The new addition is
due is February.
Lee Brice will be the first country artist to play all 50 states in 2015.
Not long ago, he found out that he was only six states away from completing the whole country,
so his booking agent got busy. Lee explains, "I love connecting with fans, and when I realized just how
close we were to getting to all 50 states, I just had to make it happen."
Lee's 50th state performance will come when he plays Rome, Georgia on November 15th.
Sam Hunt scores his fifth number-one on the Mediabase chart this week with “House Party.”
It’s the third consecutive number-one from his debut album, Montevallo, following “Take Your Time” and
“Leave the Night On.”
Sam’s other number-ones are Kenny Chesney’s “Come Over” and Billy Currington’s “We Are Tonight.”
He also co-wrote Keith Urban’s “Cop Car.”